1. Affirmative Action
On June 23, a 5-4 decision was made in support of the University of Michigan's law school's right to use race as a factor in admissions, while declaring the points (a.k.a. quota) system unconstitutional. ... As we speak, many high school students across the country have who have applied to universities are being rejected because there are other, less qualified people who are getting accepted because they are minorities. ...
She has also been awarded with well over forty Honorary Degrees from Universities and Colleges around the county, along with a bevy of other awards and plaques. ... Harold Bloom, the distinguished professor at Yale University, has included Angelou in his series of study guides, an tribute that puts her as a significant writer of literature. Today, Angelou lives in North Carolina and is a Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University, where she has been appointed to a lifetime position. ...
King excelled his education in Theology and earned a doctoral degree from Boston University in 1955. King studied teachings on nonviolent protest of Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi at Morehouse, Crozer, and Boston University; King visited India and credited Gandhi on his techniques on his civil-rights success. ... King met his wife Coretta Scott King at Boston University they married in 1953, shortly after they moved to his wife hometown Montgomery, Alabama where they had four children Yolanda Denise, Martin Luther III, Dexter and Bernice. ...
Martin Luther King, Jr. played a key role in our nation's civil rights movement. Martin was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15th, 1925. His father, Martin Luther King was the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church. Martin attended Morehouse College an all black college in Atlanta. He graduated More...
The Civil Rights movement was a very hard time for many blacks in the United States. African Americans had to fight for their rights. They fought to be able to sit on a bus in the seat of their choice, sit at a lunch counter, go to a decent public bathroom, integrate schools, and most importantly th...
After Hoover completed high school, he began working at the Library of Congress and attending night classes at George Washington University Law School. ... In 1964, the FBI talked Marquette University out of awarding King with an Honorary Degree because the FBI convinced them that King was "Communist Affiliated." ...
Years later, Angelou and her son Guy, intending to migrate to Liberia, ended up settling in Ghana where she worked as the assistant administrator of the School of Music and Drama at the University of Ghana while Guy attended the University. ...
This letter was written by a man who was sick and tired of seeing African Americans becoming acquired to feeling like their nobodies or outsiders in a world where the phrase "all men are created equal" was being preached everyday. For over 350 years African Americans have been denied there constitu...
Ralph Abernathy Ralph Abernathy was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He was born in March 11, 1926 in Linden Alabama. His father was a successful farmer. Abernathy attended and graduated Alabama State University with a B.S. degree in 1950. He became a Baptist minister. During the movement ...
Martin Luther King, Jr. If someone was to ask about a great civil rights leader who, would first come to mind? For most people it would be Martin Luther King. He made many sacrifices for a greater good for all people. He had strong values and a great personality that made people of all ra...
King fought to desegregate universities and eliminate bias in the workplace towards minorities. ... King's work was an outstanding victory: African Americans can now attend any university and obtain any job as long as they have the proper credentials. ...
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was an eloquent black minister who dedicated his life to the struggle for racial equality in America. Inspired by the conviction that nonviolence and peaceful protest could abolish social injustice, he fought hard to gain the freedoms every living person is entitl...
On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Junior stepped up to the podium in Washington D. C. to deliver one of the most famous and influential speeches of our time. The crowd of over 200,000 listened to his I Have a Dream speech, in which King attempted to convince people to live together in peace and...
Martin Luther King Known as one of the most effective advocates of nonviolence and direct action as a method of social reform, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta on 15 January 1929. King's roots were in the African-American Baptist church, much like his father, Martin Luther King Sr, ...
Martin Luther King was an American religious and civil rights leader who achieved many great things in his life. He fought and struggled to change the ways of the society he lived in. He believed "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere". Born in Atlanta and grew up to become a minister...
America is a land made by many diverse faces all with the similar history of segregation and discrimination that cannot by forgotten. Through A Different Mirror, Ronald Takaki makes clear the life of each ethnic that makes up America from the period when the Viking settled to today. The stories of t...
T.S. One of the main leaders of the movement for the defense of the right civiler and important defender of the not violent resistance to the repression racial. King was born in Atlanta (Georgia), January 15 of January 1929, older son of a minister Baptists. It entered in the Morehouse Colle...
The core democratic value I will be focusing on in my report will be equality. Equality means that every individual is created the same, every individual shall receive the same treatment, and every individual shall receive equal opportunities. This is a main area of focus in the United States, but...
